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When did Apple overtake Microsoft ?
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I am not sure Apple has overtaken Microsoft just yet. Though for the mobile industry, I see Apple taking a bigger market share than microsoft, but that is not really their type of game.
In the corporate world, you would be surprised that a big majority of the field are still on Windows, XP to be more specific, and I do not see that changing anytime soon, unless there would be a meltdown that would cause XP machines to just die. Probably the familiarity or the deeper stretch of users is making them stay.
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Rank: Member Joined: 1/22/2011 Posts: 193 Location: nairobi
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/16/2010 Posts: 906 Location: Nairobi
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rcarter wrote:I am not sure Apple has overtaken Microsoft just yet. Though for the mobile industry, I see Apple taking a bigger market share than microsoft, but that is not really their type of game.
In the corporate world, you would be surprised that a big majority of the field are still on Windows, XP to be more specific, and I do not see that changing anytime soon, unless there would be a meltdown that would cause XP machines to just die. Probably the familiarity or the deeper stretch of users is making them stay. Apple has overtaken Microsoft on all fronts: market cap, revenues and profits. Apple is now the second most valuable company in the world behind Exxon Mobil. Wewe uko nyuma na madesktop zako  Nowadays it's all about mobile and internet. Apple has a major footprint in all mobile devices that matter(laptops, MP3 players, phones, tablets), and it also has a major footprint online(iTunes). Windows is sooo behind in mobile and internet.
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Rank: Member Joined: 10/28/2008 Posts: 41
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Kobe kampita Kaka Sungura. Microsoft bado wanalala as Apple are edging them out. They are not as aggressive in development and marketing. On mobile devices they are losing out to Apple(iPads) and Google's Android(around 50% of smartphone market share). This shows in their financial results. In fact Apple have even surpassed US govt in terms of cash in hand Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14340470 The crowd will cheer your coronation as well as your beheading. People like a show, that's all.
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 6/22/2010 Posts: 17 Location: rbi
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where do you get your information? Microsoft is No 10 with $18,760.0 million and apple is No 20 with $14,013.0 million in profits as in 2010 financial results.My be you are talking about growth of 145.7% in Apple and 28.8% of Microsoft? “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” – Wolfgang Von Goethe .
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Rank: User Joined: 5/3/2011 Posts: 559
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... Apple is number 35 largest companies in USA, $65billion in revenue cannot make it to top 30, Apple revenue need to grow by 50% to apprx $95billion to make it to top 25 companies in USA. So get the numbers right!
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Rank: Member Joined: 6/25/2010 Posts: 415
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FRM2011 wrote:Am looking at the current edition of the fortune magazine and I can't believe Apple are way ahead of giants like Microsoft,Boeing, co-cacola, Time- warner, Google, Morgan stanley ..............
$65bn in revenues and $14bn in profits making them the 8th largest US corporation.
Then I remembered a story in the papers two weeks ago about a teenager in China who sold his kidney to buy an I-pad. Steve Jobs invented the original Windows operating system and Bill Gates simply ran with it. Steve Jobs is simply a Genius especially in creating a "buzz". People literary line up to buy new Apple products. When the Iphone 4 came out, Apple servers simply crashed coz they could not handle the demand! At this rate, Apple is definitely positioned to become the most valuable corporation in the the U.S bar none in a few short years.He has managed to achieve this by creating an almost foolproof distribution system. In the second quarter alone, Apple shipped 24 million Iphone 4s' It's Asian markets are expanding a meteoric rate. Most people who buy Apple products consider them a status symbol. It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/16/2010 Posts: 906 Location: Nairobi
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Drunkard wrote:... Apple is number 35 largest companies in USA, $65billion in revenue cannot make it to top 30, Apple revenue need to grow by 50% to apprx $95billion to make it to top 25 companies in USA. So get the numbers right! http://techcrunch.com/20...apple-microsoft-profit/
http://money.cnn.com/201...arkets/thebuzz/index.htm
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/7/2010 Posts: 2,148 Location: elderville
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story teller wrote:FRM2011 wrote:Am looking at the current edition of the fortune magazine and I can't believe Apple are way ahead of giants like Microsoft,Boeing, co-cacola, Time- warner, Google, Morgan stanley ..............
$65bn in revenues and $14bn in profits making them the 8th largest US corporation.
Then I remembered a story in the papers two weeks ago about a teenager in China who sold his kidney to buy an I-pad. Steve Jobs invented the original Windows operating system and Bill Gates simply ran with it. Steve Jobs is simply a Genius especially in creating a "buzz". People literary line up to buy new Apple products. When the Iphone 4 came out, Apple servers simply crashed coz they could not handle the demand! At this rate, Apple is definitely positioned to become the most valuable corporation in the the U.S bar none in a few short years.He has managed to achieve this by creating an almost foolproof distribution system. In the second quarter alone, Apple shipped 24 million Iphone 4s' It's Asian markets are expanding a meteoric rate. Most people who buy Apple products consider them a status symbol. Was it the same time Al Gore was inventing the internet?  He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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Rank: User Joined: 5/3/2011 Posts: 559
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KenyanLyrics wrote:[quote=Drunkard]... Apple is number 35 largest companies in USA, $65billion in revenue cannot make it to top 30, Apple revenue need to grow by 50% to apprx $95billion to make it to top 25 companies in USA. So get the numbers right! http://techcrunch.com/20...apple-microsoft-profit/
http://money.cnn.com/201...rkets/thebuzz/index.htm[/quote] I guess I see where you get the information and Like it is listed clearly Apple will have to grow by $50 billion to get to Exxon, please go through the rankings of 2011 fortune 500 companies and see the list, forget about other people's opinions. Apple is a great company though!
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